Shackle is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SHACKLE in dictionary:

VERB:
• to confine with irons around wrists and ankles
• chain with shackles
• restrain; limit
• To tie or confine the limbs of, so as to prevent free motion; to bind with shackles; to fetter; to chain.
• Figuratively: To bind or confine so as to prevent or embarrass action; to impede; to cumber.
• To join by a link or chain, as railroad cars.
• bind the arms of
• restrain with fetters
• fasten with shackles
NOUN:
• a situation or factor that restrains or restricts someone or something
• a metal link, typically U-shaped, closed by a bolt, used to secure a chain or rope to something.
• Stubble.
• Something which confines the legs or arms so as to prevent their free motion; specifically, a ring or band inclosing the ankle or wrist, and fastened to a similar shackle on the other leg or arm, or to something else, by a chain or a strap; a gyve; a fetter.
• Hence, that which checks or prevents free action.
• A fetterlike band worn as an ornament.
• A link or loop, as in a chain, fitted with a movable bolt, so that the parts can be separated, or the loop removed; a clevis.
• A link for connecting railroad cars; -- called also drawlink, draglink, etc.
• The hinged and curved bar of a padlock, by which it is hung to the staple.
• a restraint that confines or restricts freedom (especially something used to tie down or restrain a prisoner)
• a U-shaped bar; the open end can be passed through chain links and closed with a bar
• a pair of fetters connected together by a chain, used to fasten a prisoner's wrists or ankles together.
• a pivoted link connecting a spring in a vehicle's suspension to the body of the vehicle.
• metal ring for securing a person's wrists or ankles
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to confine with metal fastenings placed around the wrists or ankles
• metal ring for securing a person\'s wrists or ankles

Words related to SHACKLE

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Words that contain SHACKLE

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How to use SHACKLE in a sentence

• He would shackle the press, and muzzle the members of parliament.
• Her light touch on his arm was the very shackle of fate.
• When I returned with the fresh pin, I screwed it into the shackle, clipped on the clewline, and sung out to the men to take a pull on the rope.
• This they did, and at the second heave the shackle came away.
• Whatever slavery might do to me, it could not shackle my children.
• He had seen the chain lengthen link by link, and now the time was come for the welding of it into a shackle to bind.
• He would keep you in order, shackle you at every turn.
• By moving the draft ring or shackle towards the plowed land the plow is made to cut a wider furrow, moving it away from the plowed land causes the plow to cut narrower.
• The system into which the United States wished to go, was that of freeing commerce from every shackle.
• Every unnecessary restraint is a fetter upon the legs, is a shackle upon the hands, of liberty.
• In joining the lengths together, the round end of the shackle is placed towards the anchor.
• When the fore and main were up, I told him to knock the shackle out of the anchor chain and let her go.
• The House of Peers was irritated by the effort to shackle it by intrigue.
• But he did not believe that this should shackle his freedom in appointing.
• An offended but merciful Providence has given the people this chance for redemption, in the opportunity to strike the shackle from the slave.
• I suppose it would cost him some trouble to get the shackle from his leg, which was riveted on.
• Their offers of service only would shackle me, if I accepted of their assistance.
• This is peculiarly agreeable, because their friends know, when they visit them, that they neither restrain, nor shackle, nor put them to inconvenience.

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